- How do Ansible modules such as lineinfile make security benchmark implementation code more efficient than shell scripting?
- How can Ansible tasks be made conditional for a specific server or group of servers?
- What are good practices for naming your tasks when writing Ansible tasks to implement the CIS Benchmark?
- How might you modify a playbook so that you can easily get the CIS level 1 benchmarks to run without any of the level 2 ones being evaluated?
- What is the difference between the --tags and --skip-tags options when running an Ansible playbook?
- Why would you want to make use of publicly available open source code for your CIS Benchmark implementation?
- What does the -C flag do to a playbook run when used with the ansible-playbook command?
- Does the shell module support check mode?
Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux
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Overview of this book
Automation is paramount if you want to run Linux in your enterprise effectively. It helps you minimize costs by reducing manual operations, ensuring compliance across data centers, and accelerating deployments for your cloud infrastructures.
Complete with detailed explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will teach you how to manage your Linux estate and leverage Ansible to achieve effective levels of automation. You'll learn important concepts on standard operating environments that lend themselves to automation, and then build on this knowledge by applying Ansible to achieve standardization throughout your Linux environments.
By the end of this Linux automation book, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage an entire estate of Linux servers with higher reliability and lower overheads than ever before.
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Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Preface
Section 1: Core Concepts
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Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux
Automating Your IT Infrastructure with Ansible
Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWX
Section 2: Standardizing Your Linux Servers
Deployment Methodologies
Using Ansible to Build Virtual Machine Templates for Deployment
Custom Builds with PXE Booting
Configuration Management with Ansible
Section 3: Day-to-Day Management
Enterprise Repository Management with Pulp
Patching with Katello
Managing Users on Linux
Database Management
Performing Routine Maintenance with Ansible
Section 4: Securing Your Linux Servers
Using CIS Benchmarks
CIS Hardening with Ansible
Auditing Security Policy with OpenSCAP
Tips and Tricks
Assessments
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